Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.